photography

Check out this awesome beastie that showed up in our kitchen the other night. It was not too afraid of the camera, but definitely got irritated with the bright flash and close proximity. Once relocated to the lemon tree outside, however, everything was good.

Update photo linked to nightmarish 3056x2292-pixel size. ;)

Discovered by accident while refilling pepper mill:

OK, they must be working on The Matrix — there has been a sudden camel synchronicity.

First was this entry at the Orwell Diaries, “September 14, 1938, Marrakech”, which I read yesterday:

Saw a man carrying a hare, otherwise no wild quadrupeds at all. There are said to be literally none, except a few hares and jackals, in Fr. Morrocco°. A few camels in Sp. Morocco, but not common till south of Casablanca. In general a camel seems to stand about 18 hands high. All are extremely lean & have calloused patches on all joints.

Then this morning, one of the Flickr users I follow, La Route, happened to post this image of “A laid-back Dromedary for hire in Marrakech”, who looks to be in much better shape than the ones described by Orwell (click to see larger):

And as if that weren’t enough, here’s another item that showed up in my news reader this morning, “Keith Bellows: Celebrating the camel”, from a 2002 TED conference, just posted today:

Keith Bellows gleefully outlines the engineering marvels of the camel, a vital creature he calls “the SUV of the desert.” Though he couldn’t bring a live camel to TED, he gets his camera crew as close as humanly possible to a one-ton beast in full rut.

So I’m not sure what the universe is trying to tell me, but somehow camels are involved.

This is a peculiar item to come across on the pet food aisle. My first thought was "Those poor dingoes!" ;)

One of the Google Street View camera cars from Immersive Media was parked on a nearby street for a few days. I was hoping I could catch it driving around for possible Street View immortality. :)